Section 216-RICR-40-10-24.4 - DefinitionsA. Wherever used in this Part the following terms shall be construed as follows: 1. "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 23-68 entitled, "Tanning Facility Safety Standard Act."2. "Department" means the Rhode Island Department of Health.3. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode Island Department of Health.4. "EPA" means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.5. "FDA" means the United States Food and Drug Administration.6. "Minor" means any individual under the age of eighteen.7. "Other compensation" means the payment or exchange of goods, services or anything of value for use of the tanning device or devices.8. "Patron" means any member of the public who is provided access to a tanning device in exchange for a fee or other compensation, or any individual who, in exchange for a fee or other compensation, is afforded use of a tanning device as a condition or benefit of membership or access.9. "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of these entities.10. "Protective eyewear" means any device designed to be worn by users of a product to reduce exposure of the eyes to radiation emitted by the product.11. "Registrant" means any person who is registered with the Department as required by provisions of this Part.12. "Registration" means registration with the Department in accordance with provisions of this Part.13. "Safe level" means not more than fifty (50) colonies of microorganisms per four (4) square inches of equipment surface.14. "Sanitization" means the effective bactericidal treatment of surfaces of equipment and devices by an EPA or FDA registered product which provides a sufficient concentration of chemicals, allowing enough time to reduce the bacterial count, including pathogens, to a safe level. Chemical germicides that are registered with the EPA as hospital disinfectants, when used at recommended dilutions and directions, may be approved for sanitizing tanning devices.15. "Sunlamp product" means any electronic product designed to incorporate one (1) or more ultraviolet lamps and intended for irradiation of any part of the living human body, by ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths in air between two hundred (200) nanometers and four hundred (400) nanometers, to induce skin tanning.16. "Tanning device" means any equipment used during the process of skin tanning with a sunlamp product, such as any sunlamp product and any accompanying equipment, including, but not limited to, timers, ballasts, starters, lamps, reflectors, cooling fans, acrylics, comfort pillows and handrails.17. "Tanning facility" means any location, place, area, structure, or business that either as a sole service or in conjunction with other services, provides patrons with access to sunlamps, ultraviolet lamps or other equipment intended to induce skin tanning through the irradiation of any part of the human body for cosmetic or non-medical purposes.18. "Timer" means a device provided to terminate the exposure at a preset time interval.19. "Ultraviolet lamp" means any lamp that produces ultraviolet radiation in the wavelength interval of two hundred (200) nanometers to four hundred (400) nanometers in air and that is intended for use in any sunlamp product.216 R.I. Code R. § 216-RICR-40-10-24.4